JACKSONVILLE - Let's get to it...
Nick from Annapolis, MD
True or false: Parker Washington could have the second-most snaps played out of the wide receivers by the end of the 2025 season.
This is true, at least in part because we can't predict the future – and therefore anything is possible when it comes to the Jaguars' wide receivers' snaps in 2025. We don't yet know if wide receivers Brian Thomas Jr., Dyami Brown and Travis Hunter will be available and healthy all season, and we don't know how extensively Washington – currently projected as the Jaguars' No. 4 receiver – will play compared to the rest of the trio. As for whether it's likely Washington will play the second-most snaps of any receiver … probably not. At least not at this point. Washington, a sixth-round selection by the Jaguars in the 2023 NFL Draft, has had a very good camp – perhaps as good as any Jaguars receiver. The Jaguars need to figure a way to ensure he has a role in the offense, and I expect that to happen. But I don't know that he will get more snaps than Thomas, Brown and Hunter. Stay tuned, though. Performance and production should dictate a lot here.
Nick from Palm Coast, FL
When do the Jags have to start listing a player's status with injuries? Is it after cutdown day or just prior to Game 1?
NFL teams must issue a detailed injury report with practice status early in the week and game status later in the week beginning in the first week of the regular season. There is no such requirement during training camp or the preseason.
Brad from The Avenues
John, will internet trolling ever be made a criminal offence?
I'm not sure the justice system can handle that.
Sean from Oakleaf, FL
The Jaguars had halftime leads in both preseason games but have been unable to protect them in the second half. Does that provide concern that our depth on this team among non-starting players is less than needed?
Not necessarily. While preseason results can give some indication of a team's depth, it's not anywhere close to an exact measure. Any second half of any preseason game almost always features players unlikely to make the final roster. This gets more true the later you get in preseason games. Remember: The Jaguars led the New Orleans Saints 17-9 until late in the fourth quarter of Preseason Week 3 last week. Most of the defensive players who allowed the Saints a late touchdown and two-point conversion to tie won't be on the 53-player regular-season roster and some never will be in the league again. There are many legitimate reasons to worry in life. Don't add a team losing a lead in the final two minutes of the second preseason game to this list.
Thomas from Williamsburg
Do you think Travis Hunter can play both ways at 180 pounds? If he can, will he be limited to slot and nickel roles since those are associated more with someone of his size? And if he plays mainly in those roles, would that have been worth everything they gave up to get him?
I expect Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter to play both wide receiver and cornerback from the start of his career. I expect he will play a lot of slot on offense initially, but I don't know that he will be limited there in the long run. How he learns multiple receiver positions will help dictate that. I don't think he will be limited to the nickel role defensively and I think he will play more as the season continues. If Hunter makes a major impact and changes games, he will be worth what the Jaguars trade. If not, he will not be worth what the Jaguars traded to get him.
Jeremy from Gilbert, AZ
I'm so proud of our starters looking OK-ish against the Saints JV squad. Solid!
The Jaguars turned in two solid offensive drives in a 17-17 tie with the New Orleans Saints last Sunday, including one for a touchdown – and the defense allowed 21 total yards on two series. This has been acknowledged and discussed extensively in this space this week because this space is where people acknowledge and discuss these things. I'm not sure what else the Jaguars could have done this past Sunday to make you happier and I'm equally uncertain what else could have happened in this space since that game to achieve that goal.
John from Section 206 from the very beginning
Do we perhaps have the Monheim Steamroller?
I dipped my toe in the water with this one shortly after the Jaguars selected center Jonah Monheim in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft. I got crickets. Maybe you will find a more receptive audience.
Sean from Oakleaf, FL
Special teams was one of the few bright spots for this team last season. From what you have seen, do you expect that to carry forward to this year? Obviously the new regime keeping on Special Teams Coordinator Heath Farwell would be a huge factor in our continued success in this area?
Long snapper Ross Matiscik, kicker Cam Little and punter Logan Cooke give the Jaguars perhaps the NFL's best trio of "specialists." Matiscik and Cooke have been selected to the Pro Bowl in recent seasons, and Little certainly appears capable of earning such an honor. Farwell is a quality special teams coach and there's little reason to think the Jaguars won't be one of the league's better overall special teams units.
Scott from Jacksonville
Wasn't the hottest training camp the Jaguars ever dealt with the first one? In Wisconsin? Midsummer is hot pretty much everywhere. I am glad the team started having training camp practices in the morning rather than waiting until it was too hot to really perform at the highest level, though. One for Coach Coen for finally being the one to see this.
The Jaguars' 1995 Training Camp in Stevens Point, Wis., indeed was surprisingly hot – with record temperatures in the 100s at times. And while I can't say that that was officially the hottest camp in team history, it is true that most NFL camps deal with some level of really very hot. Current Head Coach Liam Coen does deserve some credit on this front for generally scheduling practices to being between 8:30 and 9:00 during 2025 Training Camp, though he's not necessarily a pioneer here. Former Jaguars Head Coach Doug Pederson started practices around nine or so during his three seasons here. Practices during that time started a touch later than they do now, but Pederson wasn't rolling the footballs out in the heat of the day.
Pedal Bin from Farnborough, Hampshire, UK
Oh Mighty 'O' / King Of All Funk, I see many fans are vexed by Leon Coen not going for a 60-yard field goal in a meaningless preseason game. As you say, 60-yard field goals are difficult and I would assume take considerable effort. Perhaps, and I am just 'shootin' from the hip' here, perhaps Coach Coen just thought it might be sensible to only ask Cam Little to go for 60-yard kicks when it actually matters. You know, in the regular season.
I expect Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen – a.k.a., Leon Coen – would have had Little attempt a 60-yard field goal on the final play of the 17-17 tie with the Saints this past Sunday. His decision to instead have rookie quarterback Seth Henigan throw on first-and-10 from the Saints 42 with :09 remaining was about having time to run a play and move closer. I expect Coen would decide similarly in a similar situation in the regular season, and that would be the prudent. I also expect fans would get vexed again if the approach doesn't work. Fans get vexed. It's what they do.
Matthew from Jacksonville
It was clear to me and my father (both former season ticket holders) that the one thing that still seems to be a theme in Jaguar football is the tackling problem. At the end of the day, you can't win a game of tackle football without properly tackling. If you were Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile or one of the defensive position coaches what would you say or show to our guys that would try help get the tackling in better shape? Obviously it takes times to get better at stuff like this, and one speech or demonstration isn't going to fix everything. However, it's fundamental and needs to be discussed critically before the season starts.
I'd tell them to tackle better and continue working the fundamentals. NFL teams don't practice real tackling much anymore. Tackling therefore isn't as good or consistent as once was the case. I don't have the sense the Jaguars over time have been particularly awful as a tackling team compared to a lot of NFL teams. They have tackled poorly when they have been bad defensively and tackled better when they have bene good, but that's true of most defenses.
